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After recovering some of his spirituality, Bethel opened his eyes and scanned his surroundings.

The "Twilight Greatsword" was not far away, and the "Scroll of the Gods" was still here, and on the source castle - Bethel received the text message and read it in the time it had just gone - Crane didn't take it back immediately, and it seemed that Crane was supposed to be accommodating uniqueness.

"Klein is going to accommodate uniqueness...... He didn't seem to have completed the ritual of promotion to Sequence 1 at all, did he? ”

Bethel was a little confused, but confused to confused, Crane's fit with the Source Fort was so high that Bethel felt like he was dreaming, so it was not surprising that he had a special way to bypass the unfinished ritual and directly promote to Sequence One and accommodate uniqueness.

After allowing himself to mourn for a moment over the death of Antigonus, an old friend, Mr. "Men" glanced at the "Scroll of the Gods" with some headaches, and reached out to try to seal the object.

But as soon as his spirituality got close to the "Divine Picture Scroll", he was instantly sucked away by the aura of the Source Fort on it, like a stone sinking into the sea. Bethel had no choice but to take the "Dusk Greatsword" first, and then easily peeled off two copies of the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 2 from it, sealed it casually, and then combined it with the surrounding items and spirit creatures to directly make a simple seal, and threw it to the Abraham family's residence through the "door".

- Frightened Dorian, who had not slept all night and went out for a walk at dawn, to hide behind a tree.

After giving the descendants two Level 0 seals, Bethel was in a slightly better mood, and he threw the "Dusk Greatsword" into the sealing space, and then carefully examined the "Scroll of Gods".

"Maybe you can use the source castle breath above to find the location of the source fort......" a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

Do what you want, Bethel has always been resolute and thoughtful.

Before leaving with the scroll, he flew above Calderon and looked down, the seal left by the god of war had begun to dissipate due to his death, and Bethel also accelerated the speed of the seal to dissipate, but the sight in his eyes still made him frown.

The stone stairs that spiral down and the stone pillars that support the vast underground space resemble words formed by the entanglement of birds and snakes...... Bethel swept over the traces of these ancient vicissitudes and his gaze fell directly on the pale and misty river at the bottom.

If he remembered correctly, there should have been the corpses of the "Mother of Heaven" and the Grim Reaper, as well as extraordinary properties.

But - the riverside was now empty, as clean as if no one had ever come!

Where did their bodies and extraordinary properties go? Is the river rising? But I haven't seen the "River of Eternal Darkness" before, so I can't come up with an answer...... Bethel felt a little wrong, looking directly at the pale "River of Eternal Darkness" gave him the feeling of looking straight into the abyss. Like those bottomless crevasses, canyons, and cliffs hundreds of meters high, there is always a strange magic that entices people to jump down.

Determined not to explore the secrets at the bottom of the river, Bethel reseals Calderon and leaves with the scroll and his booty.

The way back was very easy and the destination was very clear.

The place he was going to was Intis after thousands of years of absence. And in the capital, Trier, his descendants are waiting for the return of their ancestors.

……

"It's almost over."

Parles looked at the sky that was gradually brightening up in the east and said suddenly.

Leonard, who was thinking about other things, asked in a low voice, "What's the end?" ”

"God War." With rare patience, Palles said again, "The war is over. ”

Is God Wars over?

Leonard didn't have much of a sense of what had happened before, and his mind finally cleared up after hearing this. He thought of Klein, of Bethel Abraham, of Amon and the church shattered in the light, and of the great wars that had nothing to do with him but in which he had been drawn into them, by the words of Pales. Under the huge blows that came one after another, the former "nightmare" felt like he had just woken up from a long nightmare, no, he had only woken up now, and he had been immersed in some details of the nightmare just now.

"It's over......"

Leonard was silent for a moment and asked softly, "Is the winner Bethel Abraham?" ”

"It could be Antigonus, or someone else." "Either way, Bethel Abraham is the other victor in this war, and the decisive battle of the Lord of Mysteries is getting closer. ”

"Old man, what do you think of Klein......"

"Don't keep asking me about that former colleague of yours."

Why don't you kid open a pot! You ask me, how do I know who the "fool" really is? How do I know if your former colleague is a relative of the "Fool" or the "Fool" himself? Pales' voice stiffly interrupted Leonard's words: "Huh! I didn't know everything in the first place, and now I've even lost Sequence One, and I rely on experience to judge the situation, how can I know about your former colleague in Sequence Two? Hey, it's incredible, your former colleague's promotion is really fast, and it's the same as me now. ”

Leonard sighed and rubbed his own hair with his hands, making the already messy black hair even more messy:

"Old man, do you think I should be honored? I've been through so many things myself, and I even faced Amon not long ago, and I was caught up in the war of the gods, and I survived. ”

"But I can't be happy at all, I, I ......"

He was speechless.

Pales didn't steal the negative emotions in Leonard's heart, nor did he say anything when he was emotionally outbursting, only after Leonard gradually calmed down, the old angel sighed and said:

"Well, it's no use complaining here."

"I've been completely out of the race for the Lord of Mysteries, and unless someone doesn't even let go of the current Sequence 2, we should be able to have a fairly safe and peaceful time in the future. Whether it's going to your friend's family, giving them support, or going to church to mourn, you can do what you want. I have only one request, and that is to try not to get close to the church of the God of Thunder. ”

"Since you have survived, don't think about death, just do what a living person should do."

Leonard listened quietly to Parles' words and did not make a sound.

He was already a mature and qualified extraordinary, who knew what he had to do, but was only temporarily disoriented and mentally unstable in the midst of a huge blow. With Leonard's own will and ability to resist pressure, he can gradually recover from his grief, but the presence of Parles is undoubtedly his reassurance, allowing him to find himself faster and better, and regain the ability and stability he deserves.

“…… Thank you, old man. ”

Parles snorted extremely loudly: "You still call the old man when you thank others?" Impolite boy. ”

Leonard scratched his head, this time the reprimand did make him a little embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly, and was about to thank Pales again when he heard the old voice continue in his head:

"That's it, I'm used to listening to you kid shouting like this for so long, don't change it, if something respectful pops out of your mouth, Your Highness, Your Excellency, it is estimated that I will be so disgusted that I can't read the newspaper."

"What newspaper do you want to subscribe to this time?"

Leonard selectively ignored Pales's complaints, and he was used to Parles' poisonous tongues and belittling from time to time.

He stood up, patted the dust on his body, and asked casually: "You also said before that the main page of the "Beckland Daily" is full of praise for the emperor, and reading it will make you sleepy, and the "Tasok Daily" is becoming more and more boring because it does not involve political news. You are not interested in the two major newspapers in Beckland, and you think that the daily newspapers in Tingen are not as good as the first two newspapers, and you can only pass the time, old man, are you now interested in the news of the gossip of the aristocracy and the rich, and the third-rate tabloids? ”

As he spoke, Leonard walked towards the outskirts of the forest.

After spending the night at the foot of the desolate and cold mountain, he already felt cold, and even buttoned his coat tightly. He had previously been afraid to go out for fear of implicating others, but now he couldn't wait to warm up with a hot stew or soup in a nearby village or town.

"I mean, you might want to think about moving."

"Moving?" Leonard stopped in his footsteps and wondered, "Where to move?" ”

Parles did not answer directly, but said a shocking news in one mouth:

"The Night Church is about to cease to exist, you should leave Rune or you will join the Church of Thunder."

Leonard's eyes widened slightly:

"Are the two churches going to merge? It was so sudden, why? ”

Although the previous cooperation has vaguely seen the signs of the decline of the church...... But why was it suddenly merged?

Besides, the doctrines, concepts, and ritual requirements of the two churches are very different, and in terms of education, family, and work, believers and scholars of the two gods have quarreled for I don't know how many times they have quarreled throughout the ages.

Combined with the previous situation that the Night Church seemed to be equal to the Thunder Church, but in fact subtly lowered his head slightly - his Sequence 5 Extraordinary Captain was actually taken away directly by the "Substitute Punisher" with a copy of the Thunder Church's documents, and the Night Church's notice came later, it can be seen that this is the first cut and then the prelude - Leonard has no hope that the doctrine of the Night Church can dominate.

If the concept of the Thunder Church is dominant, then as an extraordinary person who has been educated by the Night Church since childhood, Leonard will indeed have to consider not going back to work.

And obviously, even if he goes back, there is no room for further promotion.

In Leonard's mind, Parles laughed and asked meaningfully:

"Why don't you use your brain again at this time? Is it because you don't want to guess that reality? ”

"The God of Thunder has introduced the Mother Earth God Church of Fenerport to settle in Rune, and now think about what it means to 'the Night Church is about to cease to exist'."

Leonard's breath suddenly choked.

"Wait, old man, what do you mean by that?"

"You mean, Goddess Him, Goddess He has ——?! Is this true? How do you know? So it's not a fusion of the two churches, it's the Church of Thunder and Truth that directly co-opts all of the extraordinary people of our Night Church—"

Is the goddess dead?

Unbelievable...... It's unbelievable, as unsettling as common sense suddenly crumbles, as unbelievable as never again there will be no more night and no more stars.

But do gods die? - Yes.

Leonard had heard more than once about the death of the gods, and I don't know when it began, and the fact that the gods who were high up and who existed for eternity would also die has gradually changed from a delusion of great rebellion to a desperate fact.

It seems that since the day the "Eternal Sun" fell, many occult organizations and statements preaching that "the gods are dying and the end is coming" have gradually spread in various circles, and the successive deaths of the gods have led to the gradual market of these statements in the church, and gradually, even official control has not been able to keep up with the spread of these pessimistic statements.

Even, the witch sect that corresponds to "catastrophe and doomsday" in the occult has also absorbed an additional group of believers and followers.

Parles glanced at Leonard: "You're calmer than I thought. ”

"Really?"

Leonard was silent for a while, then reached out and touched his face, and found that his expression was indeed very calm, so he pulled the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Maybe I've been stimulated a lot, so I don't react now." When I heard the news from you, I thought I would cry, I would be so sad that I would lose control, I would lose the direction of my life, I would be overwhelmed...... But I didn't expect, well, I'm pretty calm. ”

"Maybe it's growth, too."

Instead of answering, Pales asked, "Are you sad?" ”

Leonard was silent for longer this time.

Which is more difficult to accept, the collapse of faith or the death of the object of faith? Leonard didn't know the answer, and he didn't think that he would have the privilege to feel both kinds of pain one by one.

As a child who grew up in the orphanage of the church of the goddess of the night, Leonard had to admit that he did not suffer as much as the children in other nurseries and social workhouses and orphanages, which subtly established his faith and gratitude for the goddess in his heart, and with the idea of "wanting to give the help that the goddess gave me to more people", Leonard successfully grew into an excellent person.

Leonard felt that his faith should be considered religious, and the goddess was like the person he admired the most.

Thus, after realizing that the person he admired most, who had "helped him", "saved many people", and "given him the right to be educated", had acquiesced in Ince Zangwill's series of disasters – even in his own Tingen, Leonard's perception and worldview were shocked.

The ideas and beliefs that grew up were smashed into cobweb-like cracks with a hammer, and Leonard could no longer be as happy and religious as he had been in the past.

"I'm sad." He said in an abrupt voice.

"I think I want to cry, even for my faith, but old man, I can't cry."

"Because I've cried once, when I realized that Ince Zangwill was able to escape with 0-08, it was the goddess's acquiescence."

Pales sighed: "Cry if you want, I won't laugh at you." ”

Leonard smiled self-deprecatingly:

"No, I don't want to cry anymore, and I shouldn't complain because I don't have the right to be upset and complain."

"I'm just thinking, the future development has always been determined by the gods, for example, the goddess died, the god of thunder was going to take over the Church of the Night, and then broke off the old suspicion with Fenerbot and introduced the Church of Mother Earth God, does this seem to have been the way things have always developed, does this mean that the hatred, war, pain and unjustified death of us mortals are not really important?"

"It's a must if I say." Parles thought for a moment, then pondered the language and said, "It's like sacrificing ten people for a hundred people, and sacrificing a thousand people for ten thousand people, do you feel better in this way?" ”

Leonard lowered his head and looked at the blades of grass with frost hanging at his feet:

"If it has to be, then I'm willing to sacrifice. But I wish at least someone had told me what I was dying for. ”

After saying this, Leonard took a deep breath, wiped his face in the cold wind, and patted his cheek vigorously, as if he wanted to expel the negative emotions accumulated in his body with a deep breath.

"I see what you mean, old man, I can't stay in Rune any longer."

Leonard summoned the spirits who had signed a contract with him, took the emergency change he had stored from them, counted them and put them in his pockets, and then asked, "Do you already have a goal for me to mention the church and let me move?" ”

"Hmm." Parles was noncommittal.

"Since you said you've been completely removed from the race for the Lord of Mysteries, should I contact Klein? It also looks good to go to work for the 'Fool', Mr. 'Fool' is very kind, and Klein helped me introduce me. ”

…… "I don't disagree with your idea, but I suggest you observe it for a while. Wait until the next tarot meeting, or if that former colleague of yours comes to contact you, and then you can consider asking him to introduce you to the 'Fool'. ”

Leonard thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "You're right. ”

Then, he raised his head and looked at the main peak of the mountain range that towered into the sky behind him:

"So where do we go next? Now this is the Honaches Mountains, and over this mountain, we can go to Intis. ”

Intis is the new home of the Abrahamic family, and Bethel Abraham is most likely there, and he should not be able to look down on the second sequence of my adjacent pathway...... Parles weighed it up, made a simple judgment with the power of the "decryptor scholar", and finally said.

"Our goal is not to go to Intis, but to go to Intis first."

Leonard understood the meaning of the phrase: "To pass through there and then to the destination?" ”

"Yes."

"Where are you going?" Leonard asked, "I only have 300 pounds on hand now, and I have to exchange money before I get to Intis, and I don't speak Intis very well, and I have to summon a local spirit to help me translate, if I go far, I'm afraid the cost of the journey will not be enough." ”

"It's quite thoughtful."

Parles teased half appreciatively, then pondered for a moment, and then said according to the deciphered answer:

"Go to a small town northwest of Intis, and in the forest on the outskirts of that town there is a deserted castle called 'Diran'."

As he spoke, a vague figure appeared in Pales' mind.

When he saw the general outline of the figure, Pales's spirituality was touched, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily rose a little:

"Don't worry, your travel expenses are definitely enough, and it doesn't matter if you don't have enough. Oh, I have a hunch that we're going to meet someone there, someone who has the same destination as us......"

TBC

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"Same destination? Old man, why didn't you just tell me our final destination? You haven't figured out where our final destination is, have you? ”

"You don't have to say a word, just cross Mount Honaches and go northwest of Intis."

"It's easy to say!"